Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Jager Bot


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol oppose vote.svg Withdrawn by operator.  Matthew  Yeager  20:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Jager_Bot
Operator: --Matthew_Yeager (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, Unsupervised

Programming Language(s): C# - with dotnetwikibot framework

Function Summary: Correct mislinked city, country links.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous (as work exists, on a low edit rate (1/15seconds?))

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: Correct mislinked city, country links. To qualify links, city and country must be articles and city, country redirects to city. The correction would be to change city, country -> city, country city -> city XYZ -> XYZ Initially I would work on the links as requested, listed throughout I'm_Not_Dead_Tour#Tour_dates. Later, determine a way to find the most mislinked city, country and queue them up to be fixed. I originally ran this request for correcting Birmingham, England links without a flag because it was about 300 edits and I was supervising them. Now we are talking about many more corrections that may have more pages linked to them. This is the previous run at about 6 edits a minute.

Discussion
The latest MoS states that popular country and city names such as the United States, India, Canada etc. should not be wikified. Have you taken this into consideration? Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-08/Dispatches 2 =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I could very easily create a blacklist of popular countries not to link.  Matthew  Yeager  19:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

What's the point? Does the MoS even say to do this? This sounds a lot like R. Mr.Z-man 04:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Mr.Z-man 18:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe the intent was for the first example, where the articles are enhanced with having the link to the country as well. I see what you are saying and will withdraw. Thank you for your time,  Matthew  Yeager  20:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.